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Translingual

Han character

(radical 118 +6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹心日 (HPA) or X竹心日 (XHPA), four-corner 88627, composition)

  1. bamboo shoot
  2. joint
  3. tendon

References

  • KangXi: page 883, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25997
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1312, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2969, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+7B4D

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*skins
*skʰinʔ
*ɡʷreːn, *sqʰʷin
*qʰʷiːns
*qʰʷiːns, *ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷin, *qʰʷjins, *ŋʷjin
*ɡʷiːn
*ɡʷiːn, *qʰʷreːŋ
迿 *ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷins
*ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷin
*l'iːŋ, *sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin, *ɢʷin
*sqʰʷin
*sqʰʷin
*sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin
*sqʰʷin
*sqʰʷin
*sqʰʷin
*sqʰʷin
*sqʰʷinʔ
*sqʰʷinʔ
*sɢʷin
*sɢʷins
*sɢʷins
*sɢʷins
*kʷin
*kʷin
*kʷin
*kʷin, *kʷrin
*kʷins
*ɡʷin
*ɢʷin, *ɡʷinʔ
*ɢʷin
*ɢʷins
*qʰʷreːŋ, *qʰʷreːŋs
*qʰʷreːŋ
*qʰʷreːŋ
*qʰʷreːŋ
*ɡʷeŋ
*ɡʷeŋ
*ɡʷeŋ
*sqʰʷrid

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /suən²¹⁴/
Harbin /suən²¹³/
Tianjin /suən¹³/
Jinan /ɕyẽ⁵⁵/
Qingdao /syə̃⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /syn⁵³/
Xi'an /suẽ⁵³/
Xining /suə̃⁵³/
Yinchuan /suŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /sũn⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /suŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /sən⁴²/
Chengdu /sən⁵³/
Guiyang /sen⁴²/
Kunming /suə̃⁵³/
Nanjing /sun²¹²/
Hefei /sən⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /suəŋ⁵³/
Pingyao /suŋ⁵³/
Hohhot /sũŋ⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /səŋ³⁵/
Suzhou /sən⁵¹/
Hangzhou /sz̩ʷen⁵³/
Wenzhou /ɕoŋ³⁵/
Hui Shexian /sʌ̃³⁵/
Tunxi /sin³¹/
Xiang Changsha /sən⁴¹/
Xiangtan /dən⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /sun²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /sun³¹/
Taoyuan /sun³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /søn³⁵/
Nanning /ɬɐn³⁵/
/ɬyn³⁵/
Hong Kong /søn³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /sun⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /suŋ³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /sœyŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /suŋ⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /tun²¹³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (47)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/siuɪnX/
Pan
Wuyun
/sʷinX/
Shao
Rongfen
/sjuenX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/swinX/
Li
Rong
/siuĕnX/
Wang
Li
/sĭuĕnX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/si̯uĕnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xǔn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
sǔn
Middle
Chinese
‹ swinX ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-qʷi[n]ʔ/
English bamboo sprouts

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 16392
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sqʰʷinʔ/

Definitions

  1. bamboo shoot
  2. (Cantonese, slang) very good; get something without paying its actual value.

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(sun) (hangeul , revised sun, McCune-Reischauer sun, Yale swun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(duẩn)

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